So, try for a calendar, but pay with a credit card, and if you fail to cancel the membership, you get charged 84 dollars, likely with an automatic renewal if you fail to cancel within the first 12 months.

Petersen must be rolling in his grave to see this foul treatment of Hot Rod Magazine fans.

The convertibles were going to be the real pace cars, and were geared for 155mph

Part of the deal was that 100 428 Super Cobra Jet cars with special side stripes and ARI graphics.

Then ARI went bankrupt, leaving Ford with 10 cool cars, and quite an investment in the developement work.

Kansas City sales district picked up on the cars and took them all off the hands of the promotions dept, as well as 100 Torinos with 429 Cobra Jets, These became what we know as the Twister Specials.

Ford ended up building 96 Mach 1, 1/2 were 351 Cleveland, and the other 1/2 were 428 Super Cobra Jets... plus 90 429 CJ Torinos, and 4 Rancheros with Clevelands. The Mustangs didn't all get 428s because the company ran out of them, and had 351s to spare

The largest of two recalls announced Wednesday covers almost 382,000 Ram 2500 and 3500 pickups and Ram 4500 and 5500 chassis cabs from 2010 through 2014.

In trucks with 6.7-Liter Cummins diesel engines, corrosion on a fuel heater terminal could cause overheating, fuel leaks and fires.

The second recall covers more than 184,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs from 2014. A debris cover over a circuit board in the steering column control module can disrupt communications and disable the stability control. The problem was discovered when dealers started getting reports from customers that electronic stability control warning lights were coming on.

Fiat Chrysler has issued 33 global recalls and 27 in the U.S. so far this year. Doug Betts, its longtime quality chief, left the company to pursue other options after Consumer Reports' survey-based rankings this year showed four Fiat Chrysler brands at the bottom of its list. Dodge, Ram, Jeep and Fiat performed worst of 28 brands ranked by the magazine.

As I said in a previous note, we are reviewing sections of The Times as part of our effort to cut costs in the newsroom. So I regret to announce that as of the first of the year we will no longer publish a stand-alone autos section.

We will continue covering the automobile industry, of course, and we will run consumer stories in the Business section, including regular coverage on Fridays. The Driven videos will continue online.

But despite sensational work over the years by Jim Cobb and his crew, the masthead concluded there is no longer an economic reason for a separate section.

New York Times publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told an audience at New York University's journalism school Thursday (Oct 16th) evening that while the buyouts and layoffs taking place now at his newspaper are “painful,” they also are necessary to refocus the Times.

Roughly two-dozen business-side jobs were eliminated earlier this month with a limited number of buyouts also on the table. The newsroom is seeking to eliminate 100 positions, ideally through voluntary buyouts, marking the paper's fourth editorial culling since the first such downsizing in its history took place six years ago.

But Sulzberger pointed out that the Times, which is adapting journalistically and economically to changes in consumer and advertiser platforms, has been reinvesting in new digital talent across the organization.

"We have more journalists today"—1,330, according to the latest Times tally—"than we've ever had in our history," he said. "The skills necessary to succeed in this world are truly changing, and that's not necessarily age-related.

The transformation of the newspaper industry from a print-centric proposition to one where readers are increasingly interested in desktops and mobile devices, and all of the attendant financial vagaries associated with that shift are just some of the challenges facing the Times.